Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

Please remember that H/R and Supervisors monitor LinkedIn postings by employees because they are not anonymous postings. The Layoff.com is anonymous. This is why you see postings on TheLayoff.com to switch to LinkedIn for your conversations. See this link for examples of H/R monitoring on LinkedIn. If you post anything on LinkedIn, please be aware that it is not PRIVATE and can be accessed by anyone including your boss.

https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20250/do-managers-monitor-employees-linkedin-connection-activity

So much venom on this board ... fact is LI does help people and provides a way to help others. If you trolls don’t see it that way, well, too bad.

If you want to help someone, reach out to them privately and connect them with someone. Social media posting feels like self-glorification vs desire to help.

Other companies haven’t done this even when they laid off employees. Hiring and Firing are part of Corporate life.

Posts are contrite, disingenuous, and mostly fake. Especially when it comes from executives or upper managers, like Bart - it’s too much on the nose.

Typical EM management commenting and defending LI posts-as always management is in denial. Now they are saying most of this forum is low performers, complainers, etc. Well, I have been following this site, and talked to friends from other companies on this forum. Everyone is here. And to EM management in denial, I saw just a few positive comments about EM over the last six months, 99% were negative. Keep living in denial and things will get better.

No good deed goes unpunished apparently based on this thread.

If people are posting and then when you contact them they don’t help then yes you are right. But if they do want to try help maybe they aren’t the problem.

Most, if not all, of the LI posters should have lost jobs. Look at them and what they do within XOM. They contribute nothing. Exxon is doomed to fail with those people.

The ones that truly care usually do a little more than copy paste. I have privately reached out to people I know since the July NSI “performance cuts” that have been impacted to check on them, and in turn I have also had some great former colleagues and managers reach out privately to me to check up. It’s not all self-promotion, but a copy/paste makes that more likely than a personal message.

@ghq+18gDxFHv is 100% correct. Scroll down and read that post.

I actually dont think many of the posts in LinkedIn are company approved. I think the people who stayed/didnt get released no longer care about what P&GA can or cannot approve.

The real issue - check the for ones NOT posting on LinkedIn/other sites. Those are the ones who probably made the uneducated decision to lay off these employees (based on "length", or to "highgrade" the roles).....whatever that means.

I was lucky and didnt have to release anyone....but my peers did and they are not happy about how they found out about it....just got told one day - absolutely zero input into the process. It was not based on ranking.....just wait until the decisional units are leaked. It was a numbers game, not a real past performance analysis by the L2's who made the decision (and probably collected their RSUs, unlike the other "executives" who previously received RSUs and didnt this year).

@1hrj+18gDxFHv So now even Christmas cards are a bad thing? Wow. You live in a dark place. I like to hear from my family. If things are going well I am happy for them. I know that even if their Christmas letter sounds perfect life probably isn’t. People don’t go trumpeting around all the hard things they are working through in a Christmas letter. Try calling your relatives or spending time with them if you actually care enough to know what is going on beyond the good news in the Christmas letter. I hope you can find a better Place where you can appreciate that everyone has struggles. Just because some struggle more doesn’t mean you should hate those who appear to have a better life. I assure you there are things they are going through that you don’t know about.

Replying to “snitch who received 20000 views”. That’s a such lie. We fortunately see who is posting on LI. Most of them (99%) are snake employees. Yet, you are lying by saying writing recommendations to companies that are hiring. There are like 5 openings in oil and gas in entire US. And, oh yes, you are a resume writer expert. Shame on you and stop playing with people’s feelings.

There are some really cynical and bitter folks on this message board. The fact is many see the LI posts for what they are: An offer to helping others in need. However in this upside down world represented on this board, a good act is seen as a bad act. I have posted one these “posts” on LI and have gotten over 20,000 views and dozens of notes and comments with heart felt letters from folks seeking advice (it was given), or comments on a resume (i was given many times) and referrals to companies that are hiring (which I will do as I have a large network). For some on this board who think this is fake, well, you know where you can go.

Glad to see others found the copy/paste patronizing offers of unsolicited canned “support” on LI tone deaf. It’s the age of the humble brag after all but it also reminded me of the mass Christmas letters that clueless silver spooner “perfect” families would blast mail out every year to even their thrice removed acquaintances. So insensitive and frankly reeks of privilege to those who are hurting. At least it’s clear who the offenders on are LI and as one other poster mentioned, not surprising who bill of individuals are.

How do you feel if someone who survived (most who deserved to be fired are going to be around with us in EM for a while because the system is set-up to help them — at least for a little while longer). Now his highness is going around posting wanna be sympathetic posts on social media that say:

"...you less fortunates.. come to me for help.. and I will make 2 hours each day for next 7 days (President of America may have more flexibility in his schedule) for those who come to me for help...."

LOL!!!!

The person who mentioned and coined the new term "Linkedin Toxic Positivity"
you nailed the definition as it related to ExxonMobil employees.

Low level supervisors and low life people are posting on linkedin how they want to help. They need something for their EADS and their posts are completely insincere.

Linked-in quickly turned into Facebook for the corporate world. Where everyone is smiling, wealthy, and happy making the world a better place, by promoting their own ideologies. Add an extra heaping serving of toxic positivity when evil decisions are made.

Every American company the last 3 months....

To my Salesforce family.
To my Intel family.
To my Uber family.
To my State Farm family.
To my Aetna family.
To my google family.

Very saddened by the news of separations, exits, impacted, disconnected, (you mean layoffs jerk) today after our headcount rationalization process. We announced working from indefinitely for 2020 (getting high 5 front page news) (wow best company ever!) (they let me move to lake8statesaway and keep my 200k job wow) thinking the impacts of Covid would be short lived (no you didn’t) we made tough decisions initially to furlough specific positions (you mean people you didn’t like) thinking they would promptly come back. (We made no mention of eliminating all the personnel who maintained our campuses for 20 years because they are just contracted losers right, now back to the workers that matter only a little more)

So sorry you young tech workers just got your $200,000 student loans due after your short lived high flying Bay Area tech career my buddy Ralph McBigbucks convinced me to offshore all of your jobs to Mumbai, and Hyderabad because....well that’s what he did. I’m sure when you told your parents and friends OMG I got hired by google,uber,postmates,salesforce starting at $180,000 OMG you had no idea we would convince you you can sell your home and move to the mid west because your job is safe forever (meaning 6 months) and by the time you paint that last bedroom for the new baby on the way you can start immediately training your new offshore replacement)

Ohana baby! Ohana! Hope you land on your feet soon in the worst job marked since the civil war....... just be happy you didn’t lose a leg buddy and keep that chin up. Keep grinding and things will work out, they always do...

Phil Cashington IV

For those who were let go and I cared about, I reached out directly. Although I do not have much power, I can still talk to them personally and suggest come contacts. The linkedin generic posts are not very sincere.

It seems that a lot of people who were laid off are not visiting this site but this site is currently visited by people who are still employed with including low level supervisors as they want to watch their backs, save themselves in the future rounds plus position themselves to gain from other peoples loss.

They need to stop posting on LI how we are the smartest, the best trained, etc. This hurts people who lost jobs. This will be perceived as arrogance. Thousands of other people lost jobs from Shell, BP, etc. and nobody did this kind of s*it. We dont need to tell recruiters how smart we are and that we are the best. But it is exxon.

@vns+18gDxFHv
I agree. It is feel good show of thing. See I am in such a better place than you mentality.

LI posters want publicity! Dont hit “like”. They will count likes and during EADS show how many they got and brag how good leaders they are . Its all about them, not people who lost jobs.

@ rwt Holding a handrail is a covid spreader, ya dipshit.

@yvu+18gDxFHv My supervisor allowed us to take stuff home. He tends to err on the side of his people when a policy isn’t specific. When this started he basically told us to bring our stuff home if we wanted it before someone asked and was told no. His approach seems to be if it isn’t stated he will make a decision rather than ask upwards for permission. He’s pretty cool. I’d work for him any day. Not all my supervisors have been like him but that is life. And yeah, we did take a 30% layoff hit plus PIPs in my group so for those of you saying things would be different if supervisors weren’t losers are fooling yourselves.

I get -to some extent- that the sheep would copy/paste the post to make themselves as empathetic as possible while fitting in on the fad; they probably know what else to do.
What I don’t gets is the mangers and even executives doing the same or going a step further with the “We had to lay-off”.
It’s disingenuous to regret something they did willingly and to save themselves.

As for the sheep, they all comment on how sad they are and how great their colleagues were, but zero are critical of the process, the leadership, or the state in which the company finds itself. Nada. Silence.

And that’s why so people find them fake and fundamentally void.

@yvu+18gDxFHv I want a transfer to your group. Not all supervisors are bad.

@efb+18gDxFHv In the USA but not Clinton or Houston. My supervisor is really cool. Has been as transparent as possible. I don’t expect him to tell me everything and lose his job but I’ve always felt he was as open as he could be. He basically says as long as you get work done I could care less if you WFH during pandemic. Interestingly he and the other supervisors have been in the office every single day except when no one was allowed in. I appreciate their approach. They aren’t asking anyone to do what they aren’t willing to do but allow people who aren’t comfortable to make their own choices without repercussions.

@sbk+18gDxFHv
Where do you work? In Clinton we were told we can't take home monitors, docking station, chairs... or any equipment other than keyboard and mice.

I’ll take an overemphasis on safety over the way things were when I started decades ago. I can still remember being scared I was going to die at my first plant after seeing a bunch of guys get burned up. Most people don’t appreciate the safety stuff because it has protected them from seeing how bad the alternative is.

Me and the other pumpers aren’t b–ching about going to work. The oil doesn’t pump itself huckleberry.

So what are y’all posting on your LinkedIn to reach out to others?

I’ve seen people posting stuff like this since the pandemic job losses started. People at other companies included. Personally I thought it was a nice gesture especially if they mean it. Friends are probably the best way to find your next job.

Is it really so damn hard to hold a handrail? You probably don’t wear a mask either because you don’t like to smell your own breath right? Easy to avoid being called out. Just hold the rail. Get over yourself.

I talked to my supervisor and haven’t had to be in the office for months. Even let me take my dual monitors docking station and ergo chair home. I am not in Houston. Not all supervisors are bad.

Most of the people I knew were always joking about the handrail thing. Many of them are still there. I’d say the kind of people and behavior you describe are the exception not the rule.

Feels good to rant about everyone else who wasn’t fired. Put them all in a bucket as the same. Obviously they aren’t. If it was as bad as people on this forum make it out to be WHY IN THE WORLD SOSNT YOU QUIT YEARS AGO. Just makes you look angry.

The level of caring like –> policing us to hold the handrails (because bossed said so) but no problem opening the Spring campus in the midst of a pandemic (because bosses said so).

I am amazed how many of us remaining ExxonMobil employees continue to be drinking the koolaid and are so self centered.

They came out. Just look who they are on LI. Could not be better. We finally saw all snitches, sneaks, backstabbers, worthless people who bring nothing to XOM, and just care for their own titles. Out of 50 or so posts I saw there is maybe one or two good persons with true intentions, and all others were fake. I know them personally.

Those ones posting on LI to help us who lost jobs care for us as much as when they say "Hold handrails, I care for your safety".

I don't want to judge people as everyone has to find his or her own truth. I was ranked very well and yet I left ExxonMobil during its peak times (remember $40Billion net profit days) as I found a career that I was passionate about.

When I was trying to establish myself in my new venture, I had reached out to several ExxonMobil colleagues to ask for very basic normal human-like minimal guidance/recommendation and every single one chickened out hiding behind fear of ExxonMobil management as I was not their boss or KO for EADS anymore.

I agree with OPs comments about people who are temporarily saved from lay off are trying to show-off compassion for their own public image. I also believe that it is not a concern as those who are meant to be successful do not need ExxonMobil or fake support.

Real friends have no designations and no titles. Karma will eventually catch up with the fake ones at EM.

Total scam but easy to identify foils and snitches thankfully. I personally asked several of those “mother Theresa” for help in past and I got nothing. They just want to help themselves. Great they came out.